Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:23:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: alk@pobox.com, dcs@newsguy.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap-related problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904142122480.83269-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <1892.924120059@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <14100.61923.427423.153188@avalon.east>, Anthony Kimball writes:
> >
> >: > All I want is that a program gets NULL from malloc if there is no memory
> >: > available. I find that to be a very fundamental thing about malloc.
> >
> >: Do you have a solution? We don't.
> >
> >Make an sbrk variant which will pre-allocate backing store.
> >setenv MALLOC_PREALLOCATE
> >
> >Not so hard.
>
> 1. Demonstrate the need.
I'm not doing this, damnit ;)
>
> 2. Implement it
Add another character to the malloc options there already. When something is
allocated, touch the first char to be '\0'. Implementation done.
>
> 3. Send patches.
Part of 2.
>
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